Archive for August, 2008
Labor Day Weekend Lesson Marathon
Sunday, August 31st, 2008The lesson site has been busy over the long 3 day Labor Day weekend. I’m doing four lessons this weekend and Neil F. was there getting a couple people going also on Sunday. The weather forecast was for perfect conditions and that’s just what it has been. In the high 80′s with light 5 to 10 mph breezes. The [...]
GO windsurfing with me … now …
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008I put the Sanyo Xacti on my helmet and took a ride in some strong NE 15-20 mph winds we had here on August 26, 2008. I was riding my BIC Techno II 160 with a Sailworks 5.5 Retro sail. The video came out pretty good so I posted it on YouTube. County Hospital movie download The [...]
Another summer day at the Bay – August 2008
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Monday evening’s weather forecast said it would blow 10-20 all day Tuesday August 19th. A few minutes after I arrived at Maumee Bay State Park the whitecaps disappeared and the winds subsided to 10 to 15 mph. Chris and Chuck were rigging 8.5 and 9.5 sails so I rigged my Comp 8.5 on the Prodigy and got in a good long 4 hour [...]
Stick Bug
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008This is totally unrelated to windsurfing but every summer I run across one of these buggies on the garage door. I couldn’t resist taking a picture of it this year. My Sanyo Xacti on auto focus does a pretty darn good jobs with close ups. This has to be the strangest insect on the North Coast. [...]
2008 Olympics and RS:X Hybrid
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008W Care Bears: Journey to Joke-a-Lot ipod ith Olympic windsurfing racing going on this week now is a good time to talk about the RS:X board used in the Olympics. The RS:X One Design board is sold by Neil Pryde a competitor of Mistral. The official Neil Pryde RS:X Class Web site is http://rsxclass.com/. The RS:X board and [...]
4 Days of Bliss – 2008 I-LYA Regatta
Thursday, August 7th, 2008This was my third time attending this race known as Bay Week and this time we had 9 Mistral Prodigy One Design kits racing. The I-LYA group was very happy to see us there because as like in windsurfing the attendance at many sail boat regatta events has declined over the last decade. In total counting windsurfers there was near 70 boats there. With 50 of [...]
Mistral Superlight I – the original IMCO board
Friday, August 1st, 2008Blackout ipod Red Doors movies Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla movies Firefox hd Wassup Rockers psp The Hit download A Fool There Was dvdrip I‘ve bought and sold several Mistral Superlights I over the years but this particular one is in extra nice shape so I’ve decided to sail it myself. I picked it up on [...]